Show at tal­ent con­test

Harefield Gazette
- 2015-02-18
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IN a week when a song proven in court to be a bla­tant pla­gia­rism (rip off) goes on to win Best Song in the 2015 Grammy like to warn any­body who ever gets a Grammy nom­i­na­tion to se­ri­ously ques­tion the in­tegrity of their mu­sic.

On that note, may draw your at­ten­tion to Beer, win­ner in the un­der-18s cat­e­gory of the Hilling­don’s Hid­den Tal­ent con­test held at the Compass Theatre,

re­cently, a tour­na­ment of tal­ent of which was hon­oured to be able to join the panel of judges.

com­po­si­tion was po­etic and his per­for­mance was so breath­tak­ingly poignant that it pushed him out by a neck against the fierce com­pe­ti­tion. Re­mem­ber that name.

There will be a Hilling­don band of indie mods with a mod­ern ex­cit­ing edge called Moxie Kicks strut­ting their stuff at The Crown and Treaty this Fri­day 20th Fe­bru­ary.

Their sin­gle ‘Soul For You’, which to­tally grooves, has been amass­ing 10,000 views per month on YouTube since its post­ing back in July last year and be­lieve Fri­day’s gig at the Ox­ford Road pub will be their de­but on home turf.

They con­sist of lo­cal pro­ducer, singer, pi­anist and gui­tarist Jamie Brown and his singing side­kick

IIIChar­lie Free­man, whose vo­cal style could be likened to that of Paul Weller or Joe Jack­son. Sup­port is promised but yet to be an­nounced. free be­fore 10pm and £5 af­ter. You’re spoilt for choice on Fri­day be­cause it’s band night back at the Compass Theatre, Hot on the bill are: Band of King. Fronted by a boss en­ter­tainer and song­writer by the name of King whose ma­te­rial ranges from soul to rock to rap and all stops in be­tween. favourite at lo­cal events and on my Tues­day night ra­dio show.

The Wat­ford’s psy­che­delic, indie mods have an at­mo­spheric qual­ity which con­jures up an indie-fied Pink Floyd.

are an all girl band from Cran­ford who pos­sess not only bucket loads of class and glam­our but can also belt out tight tunes cov­er­ing the rock and dub gen­res.